[marcus_holmes]

Go produces large binaries (15Mb+) by default (it optimises for startup time not storage space). There are options to reduce this, but they involve tradeoffs so here be dragons.

Go code tends to be verbose (if you come from a more succinct language). Again, this is a result of design choices made by the Go language designers: optimising for simplicity and explicitness (lack of magic).

I've been coding in Go for years, and find it incredibly readable compared to other languages. I now find less-verbose code harder to read.